Carrhae possible or not ?

**kungfuserge** · 12-17-2006, 08:40

Hello
I wish to know if any one has won the Historical Battle of Carrhae on Very hard with the original game ?
... and if possible indicate which strategy to apply

**Roman_Man#3** · 12-17-2006, 17:17

which one is carrhae?

**kungfuserge** · 12-17-2006, 17:35

Hi; the one where you play Roman in square surrounded by mounted archers and charged at the same time by 4 units of Cataphalcs in the middle of the Dunes. Roman starts in "turtle formation"
you have 7 units of legonnaries and 2 units of cavalry
I personally see no issue to this one (if you brake the turtle formation the charge of cataphalcs is so devastating that it root the units)
(if you stay in formation , you can't move)
The best result I have is retiring on the hill behind...and I got smash ; but not as quick

I play on very hard; Sparta is very difficult but interesting and I can make it....Telamon is very Hard I win it twice (upon maybe 50 try); but this one doesn't leave any hope

**Afkazar** · 12-17-2006, 19:07

so im assuming that this is a battle that you hafta go agaisnt the history books
THe battle a carrhae was a major loss for the romans because if they formed a testudo the cataphracts would charge.If you weren in testudo you would get shot.The parthians were using new compound bows which were strong enoguhe to penetrate roman shields and armor. Some soilders ended up with their shield nailed to there hands.With the parthian arrows were lethal the hot desert sun was also lethal.

**Craterus** · 12-17-2006, 19:14

It's been done..

**kungfuserge** · 12-17-2006, 21:14

So, if is it possible to beat the IA ? HOWWWWWWW ????

**Geoffrey S** · 12-18-2006, 00:21

Set up a line of legionaries to the front, and another one slightly behind. Set all to fire at will. That is what I remember doing, it broke the initial cataphract charge and allowed a countercharge against the stationary enemy, and also some flanking with my own cavalry. Then I retreated to the hill to the front-right of the initial starting postition and used fire at will to thin out the remaining parthian horsearchers.

It's a tough nut, definitely, but certainly possible to finish with more than half the army intact.

**Lord Comnenus** · 01-01-2007, 21:47

Hey SERGE remember me! Comnenus from TWCENTER hell you are really serious about thei carrhae do you? maybe you just want to know so you can make a vid and upload it to youtube right?

**Oaty** · 01-02-2007, 08:33

Been ages but guard mode for infantry is the best counter to cavalry (RTW). As soon as it starts you have to take them out of testudo and guard mode and when the cataphracts hit make sure you tell the infantry to halt. If you dont use halt they will keep moving into thier new formation making them take more casualties than needed from the cavalry. You have to quickly doubleteam the cats as quickly as possible. you can end this battle quickly by suckering an all out attack wich is probably best as HA's will wittle your army down to nothing. As the Cat's charge first this leaves the AI's HA's free. If you ignore the HA's they will just sit there shooting you up. From my memory when I played this I lured the AI to Engage in melee with there HA'S by quickly having my whole army engaged with the cats minus the general but running my general to where he cant be shot up. With plenty of engaed backs turned to the AI it charges it's HA's in.

The whole trick is to get the AI to take it's HA's out of the equation so it is a pure battle vs melee cavalry.